This might be hard to believe but, in car years, the Ford Fiesta is getting a bit old. Sure, the Ford Fiesta was new to us for the 2011 model year, but the Fiesta has actually been around since 2008 in Europe. That’s mid-life crisis time in car years and it’s time for a change. Judging by our latest spy shots, Ford is hard at work updating the new Fiesta, which looks to be getting a 2013 Fusion-inspired front-end.

The camouflaged Fiesta testing in the snow will likely wear Ford’s Global Design Language—an evolution of the Kinetic Design Language. The most obvious difference between this Fiesta and the current model can be found in the headlights. The angry-looking headlights look like they were ripped straight off of the new Fusion and slapped on the Fiesta, and they give the car a more aggressive appearance.

From the looks of it, the headlights aren’t the only visual cues the new Fiesta shares with the 2013 Fusion; the new Fiesta may also adopt a prominent six-point grille similar to the one on the new midsized sedan. The hood also appears to be revised with a more muscular look to it. What might not change are the LED driving lights; hidden behind the circular foglight-shaped opening in the camouflage, this Ford Fiesta mule looks it keeps the previously North American market-only lights.

Aside from the front clip, it seems to be business as usual for the Fiesta. Though we don’t know what’s under the hood of this particular car, we’re expecting the new Fiesta to offer the new 1.0-liter EcoBoost I-3, though we likely won’t see that engine in the United States.What would you want to see powering the new Ford Fiesta? Do you think it should take its design language from the 2013 Fusion? Let us know in the comments below.

Keep up with traffic? The 1.0L ecoboost produces more power and torque (and at a lower rpm) than the current 1.6L engine and it weighs 80lbs less than the 1.6. The Fiesta should be quicker than the current model. I don't know of any production cars with top speeds below 100mph, not that speeds in that range have anything to do with "keeping up with traffic".

Stop drinking that Toyota Koolaid and pull your head out of the sand. The ignorant and antiquated idea that Ford builds junk hasn't applied for quite sometime, and in many cases Ford's quality surpases its Toyota counterpart. Not to mention that Toyota has been propping up its sales numbers with heavy fleet sales to rental car agencies as of late....this will do wonders for your resale value in a couple of years.

Woah, woah, woah, now you do know that appliance title is reserved strictly for anything Toyota. You need to stop, because the new Fords are coming in first place for quality by JD Power and Consumer reports.

To all the haters,
There is nothing wrong with a company having a corporate identity. It's going to look meaner which appeals to peoples vanity. In my time selling cars a lot of people don't consider hatches, because they feel they look too nerdy in general. The category needs a little more sex to it.
The STs would put hatchback sexy into warp speed!

In this price level, maybe style is not that important to designers. If they really wanted to make it look sporty, they would have given us the European Fiesta with its sporty two-door good looks. Maybe they think all Americans want to haul kids so no need to bring a coupe to the U.S. Too bad.

Ford's getting a little to "focus happy" with its design these days. The Fusion looks like it would make a good Taurus, but doesn't look like a Fusion. The Focus ST has a terrible front end. Let me hope the Fiesta doesn't follow the same language

I think Ford would be stupid to not bring the 3-cylinder Ecoboost immediately. We could see mileage at a possibe 50 MPG hwy and performance being the same or better. Hopefully Ford brings it over. It should be the main engine and the current weaksauce engine should be only for fleet. The 1.6T could be the upsized engine on the ST and should be available with the DCT and 6-spd manual.